Notes
His biography on the college website (see references) states: ‘Richard Cecil was born at 132 Lexham Gardens, Kensington in 1916 to Richard Haynes Twining and his wife Ellen Irene Rosalind Tweed. His paternal grandfather was a banker and his maternal, a stockbroker. His father, also a stockbroker, was a well-known cricketer, playing for Middlesex and Oxford University and being President of the MCC in 1964.
He was educated at Eton and Matriculated in 1935. He graduated with a 4th in history in 1938. He joined the Welsh Guards and was a 2nd Lieutenant with 4 Company in the retreat from Dunkirk.
He was promoted Lieutenant with effect from 1 January 1941 and in March he was commanding a Platoon at West Byfleet where an Ant-Tank Company had been formed. In March 1943, he married Lorna Althea Holt nee Ravenhill, the widow of Pilot Officer G.C.A. Holt who had been killed on 15 October 1942. Richard Cecil Twining was killed, days later, on 9 April 1943 in the final days of the war in North Africa.
He is buried in Enfidaville War Cemetery Plot II. B. 17.
Lorna Twining married Desmond Clive Chichester in 1946 and died in 1948 having just given birth to a son.'